Author(s)

Chen Hao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ University of Jinan, Jinan, China

Corresponding Author

Chen Hao

ABSTRACT

The Bookshop is the representative work of Penelope Fitzgerald, a 20th century British female writer. It tells the story of Florence Green, the heroine, who successfully realized her dream of opening the only bookshop in Hardborough town. However, because of various obstacles, the bookshop had to close. After the death of her husband in the war, Florence moved to Hardborough with the dream of opening what would be the only bookshop in Hardborough. After unremitting efforts, she bought the old house in the town that had been idle for many years, and transformed it into a bookshop. With the help of her assistant, Christine, and the advice of Mr. Brundish, the bookshop grew and expanded into a lending library. But Mrs. Gamart was so intent on turning the old house into an art center for exhibitions and lectures that she used her nephew's bureaucratic connections to introduce a bill to make the Old House her own. In the end, Florence's bookshop closed down. Faced with bureaucratic oppression and apathy in the town, she finally left Hardborough. Florence lived in the small town of Hardborough and ran the Old House Bookshop, which is a very representative spatial intention in the book. Space is the place where power runs, and the interaction between space and human makes space have a great impact on human physiology and psychology. This paper analyzes the physical space, social space and mental space, and discusses the space embodied in Florence's realization of her dream of opening a bookshop and the process of the eventual failure of the bookshop.

KEYWORDS

The Bookshop; Physical space; Social space; Mental space

CITE THIS PAPER

Chen Hao, The Analysis of the Bookshop from the Perspective of Space Theory. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 150-155. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070124.

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